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Menopause and Waistline Woes — Do We Even Have a Chance? Yea, we do.

Kristen Petroff
6 min readMar 14, 2024

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So many articles, so little time. Just in the last two weeks since I have been sick, there have been many popups on my phone about menopause and weight loss, what we can do and can we even fight it.

If you are following along with my weight loss journey, stalled due to illness, you will have learned that us women, in menopause, need to work out like body builders just to MAINTAIN our muscle mass and resistance training MUST be a part of it.

Now many of us have changed a ton of our habits to subdue our menopause symptoms. We gave up booze, sugar, processed foods, red meat. We exercise more, we try and do the right thing. One things I think is missing from the conversation about weight loss is our protein intake. But hey, I may be getting ahead of myself. I have a couple of articles on Menopause and Weight Loss. I am going to read them now ad come back with my thoughts.

Here is the first one: https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/chasing-life/episodes/dfd149c2-8efa-11ee-ae9c-97b9817bc064

This is my second Sanjay Gupta posting. I like how he comes into these interviews as if he is uninformed.

The most important thing Dr. Gupta says is this:

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Kristen Petroff
Kristen Petroff

Written by Kristen Petroff

Aloha. Heading into my 6th year of Menopause. Welcome to Hell.

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